he was citing loosening standards for qualifying for disability payments in the eighty's and ninety's so people who would normally be counted as unemployed started moving to the disability system and you can see how those numbers have steadily increased. and today as the eighty's and ninety's that those standards were loosened and this trying to continue during the recent downturn the number of workers receiving disability insurance jumped twenty two percent from december two thousand and seven to april two thousand and twelve this is bloomberg reporting this citing social security data so looking at the labor force participation rate there you can see it has been falling this is something that we talk about month after month and the rise in disability could account for as much as a quarter of the decline in the labor force participation rate during this time from two thousand and two thousand and seven to two thousand and twelve according to some economists so this is just one factor possibly clouding or complicating the unemployment picture that we headline every month we mean the media collectively joining me today discuss all of this though is mike shylock better known as his

investment adviser for sick of pacific capital author of the popular blog mischa's global economic analysis and i'm really glad that you're here today mitch because i want to spend some time on this this latest fervor around the jobs numbers is a great opportunity to really probe into what goes into these so thanks for being here oh a pleasure to be on the show again lauren always seems to be some kind of big controversy when i'm on the air this time right if you're headed right into the election big controversy on jobs in the form of. a loop of wire or with a million and i have people stars on the i know that's for sure that tweet went very far and then other people jumped into his camp people like donald trump who is outspoken on many issues to put it mildly so just to get this cleared up with september you think the kind of the blatant accusations of manipulation that those are conspiracies correct oh oh well those are the conspiracy theory and a lot of people you may tell me that and said well you know mitt. look at this

these numbers are unbelievable actually it was jack welch and said these numbers are unbelievable and i dove into him and so well certainly it could be an outlier you know believe a bull unbelievable how i guess is the way do i think the b.l.s. is cooking the books per se no i allot of these people were hired under the bush administration they're not democrats the b.l.s. doesn't consist of a bunch of of democrats cooking the books for obama you know rather you know they do their job and sometimes there's outliers and sometimes there's not certainly the proceedings three months were really horrendous we had kind of a snap back lot of what we can discuss that a little bit but they were actually going out there and manipulating the data i think someone would squawk someone would be raising the red and look at this look at what obama is doing ok so i'm not going to stare at the theories fall short or i

totally hear you there so you said so you chalk this up to a conspiracy theory so let's just square away the september numbers in terms of what came out and then how to how to square those corners so a there is seventy three thousand jobs added according to the household survey that's those than those three months the prior three months i had a little change this was the most since two thousand and three according to accounts so where did these jobs all come from or why where that was if not added but actually in the prior two months there were there was a loss of one hundred nineteen thousand jobs one month and then something like a hundred another month so you know here we were all of a sudden losing do yourself and jobs and then going to this monstrously big number i dove into some of the details five hundred eighty two thousand of them were part time jobs if you look at the use six unemployment rate it stayed flat that means the entire three tenths of a point drop in the unemployment rate was. all based one hundred percent of it was

based on part time workers now is that reasonable or not i don't know but i did a post just earlier this afternoon with some analysis that said well perhaps this is related to obamacare in the obamacare bill and i think we're just finding out some of the details that senate that are in it remember nancy pelosi said well we've got to pass it to see what senate but you know there's provisions in there that give. that are very onerous on full time employment so you know right as this kicks in our corporations going to contractors and part time workers here i don't know but it's a possible explanation and it's a certainly much more reasonable explanation than we've seen regarding conspiracy theory yet but just to be clear cause i'd be obamacare theory is that it as

a theory at this point or is there any as anything to to lend credence to it at this point in terms of that september rise in part time employment i don't know i mean i guess my question would be why is this all of a sudden and you know is this some sort of a year in the fact that's the reason why i don't know but the the theory says and i looked at it and i looked at the data and i looked at provisions in the bill as you know actually are you know pretty onerous in terms of what it's going to cost to hire full time people so i don't know maybe there was a sudden hiring spurge and all the people just happen to be part time or contractors to not so that they would not have to pay for obamacare i don't know i think one month can easily still be an outlier as actually my number one choice there and they're going to revise some of this away but there's a chance that part of it is also obamacare so those are the two factors i think and it'll. we'll need to analyze that further in the months to come conspiracy no i

don't think so ok and just one more thing so i can show our viewers how the rise in the part time workers factor is and looking at it broadly so far and you can see part time workers so five hundred eighty two thousand were added last month and this was just the largest rise that we've seen since two thousand and eleven for one month so you think this could be a statistical anomaly versus really five hundred eighty two thousand jobs coming online all at once yes exactly and some people were telling me well they expected this to happen big because the election and others said i got e-mails and. look at this i mean this is just seasonal hiring patterns for teachers going back to school back to class know that our solution doesn't who are born because these are seasonally adjusted numbers the future is going back to work we would have seen this pattern before but we haven't this is this is an outlier ok so outlier is the

key takeaway for this so now we've got september squared away this kind of weird report that we think could be an outlier let's look at the bigger picture of unemployment as i think it's an important conversation to have about the ways that the figures are not necessarily overtly manipulated as an obama calling the b.l.s. saying we need a higher rate but in the way that people are counted as unemployed what's counted as the labor force and you heard me at the beginning of the show i was interested to hear austin goals me in two thousand and three talking about how social security disability insurance and how the parameters for that had been expanded so more people were going onto the disability rolls and were being counted as unemployed and so this was kind of skewing what we look at as unemployment and is this one factor that you think kind of skews the picture that that we consider to be the unemployment picture absolutely i got between two thousand and many of this year two point two million new. point two million people with on. social security

disability how much of that is fraud i think i don't know pick a number but let's say you have if it's fraud because that's what i think and we also saw that rise at exactly the same time line as people were expiring all of their ninety nine weeks of of unemployment insurance benefits so they're collecting unemployment insurance they no longer can and they work it out with their doctor that they can file for not a physical disability a lot of these are mental disabilities how do you prove that and doctors are saying oh i'll write you a little note here or you know like your teacher wrote you when you want to play hooky from school oh joe wait a sec well doctors are doing this the problem is this is costing taxpayers a lot of money if that's what's happening and i'm sure that is a portion of it as well and we don't know if it's fraud we don't know if perhaps some of these people that have been disabled would work in better times because

there were jobs available and they would just choose to do that and now those jobs aren't available so they are on disability we don't know i don't want to make a moral that that's not personally but i do want to ask in terms of the invisible unemployed what other groups are important to look at so we have disability is one that is not included in the unemployment figures that you three that we look at is are there other invisible unemployed that aren't counted oh absolutely students are the big ones students are staying in school longer because there's no jobs and also you have to remember if you're in school you know you're you're not considered part of the labor force therefore you're not considered to be unemployed if you don't have a job. we also have seen middle age workers going back to school obama and actually every administration is pressing people oh you just need draining i'd only. it was a training years you're not going to retrain

a truck driver into being a job or a programmer or a java programmer into being a i don't want counting that's what's happening people are going back to school you know trying to get classes wanting to improve themselves because the for profit schools are pushing this no you need to go back to school will get you a job well great most of these people are you know graduating in finding out there's no jobs here but while that's going on all those people aren't counted as being part of the labor force the b.l.s. in two thousand and six estimated that in two thousand and ten the labor force would be one hundred fifty six million one hundred fifty six and a half million ok it's now one hundred fifty five million and then we're almost three years later here going on to two thousand and thirteen so the b.l.s. was way off with this was this was another argument that i kind of rights while that i've gotten and do yeah about participation in the participation rate we've

seen it dramatically decrease and you're saying even more than the b.l.s. anticipated so that's the other factor that's really impacted the actual unemployment rate in a way that may not be completely accurate i want to continue this conversation after a quick break mash we'll have more with mike shylock the investment advisor for six episodes at capital and also still ahead angela merkel arrives in greece protesters take to the streets but what makes mainstream headlines we'll talk about financial and perception troubles on the other side of the world in loose change but first to close the market numbers. with. technology innovation all the developments around russia. that's huge. covered. while.

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welcome back we're talking about the unemployment numbers and the way that the books are or are not cooked depending on what you consider it but i think it's important to understand what is left out of these numbers and how to better get an accurate gauge of the job situation especially when this is such an important economic issue and also a political one going into election so like shylock has been talking to us about all of this is investment advisor pacific capital and we're going to switch gears in a minute to the i.m.f. projections but i do want to stay on employment on unemployment for one more moment because i want to ask is there any accurate gauge you think of what the true unemployment situation is in the us for example the used to. everyone

has their own perception i think we ought to come up with a more realistic way that i saw a proposal last week you know based off of. some other factors let's make it simple lord if you don't have a job and want a job your own employer what would that number be that number would be more like you farai the unemployment and but you also have to add in two million on disability you've got to add in some other people like that so the real unemployment rate here not car not counting the part time workers would be more along the lines of about ten percent that's what i think that's the people who want to job and don't have one add in people who are working part time. for economic reasons in other words they want a full time job but don't that gets you an unemployment rate of around fifteen percent and then we can argue whether or not they're fudging any of those numbers or not but you know take your choice include part timers it's about fifteen don't

include part timers it's about ten i realistically the unemployment rate is about ten percent in my opinion and you get that just by adding back in all these discouraged workers all the disability fraud all the things like that very simple calculation and a very simple definition learn very simple definition do you want shawn do you have one ok no you're unemployed i'm totally with you there i think that it's such a rare world when maybe someone that's homeless on the streets would not be counted as unemployed because they haven't looked for work for four weeks or whatever so let's move on to the i.m.f. because i am out today i came out with global growth forecasts they reduced them most of on from their prior estimates and this made headlines front page news in the wall street journal but when you and i were talking about earlier is that i am up late to the game on this. of course related to the game we were talking about is lauren on all right government doubtingly back in january as are the i.m.f. going to be dry dramatically lowering their growth forecasts well they didn't

dramatically lower than they do is lower them and and so i think they're still way off the mark i think more of these revisions are coming down down the pike i think france in particular is going to be shockingly bad i think germany is going to be bad there are a lot of things happening in europe that they've just not accounted for off so we had this discussion last week and certainly nothing was settled of the as the basis of the last jobs report but i think the u.s. is back in recession and we've got the fiscal cliff coming up you know are they really going to let all these tax hikes go into. and apply all the defense cuts well they're not really because laura the reduction in the amount of deficit is actually the deficit even going up so they're not doing what they estimated they wanted the budget to be so. and we also have the fed cheerleading that just you know think about that for

a second with the fed really be pressing congress this way if the economy was was a lot stronger so no there's economic weakness everywhere it shows up in the participation rate it shows up in the fed sure lading as easily joseph in bed panic which i think we talked about any i.m.f. is way off the mark here they're going to be lowering these gas prices i love that the headline is that the i.m.f. downgrades forgot to say these are still far too rosy we just have a minute but no one nation that the i.m.f. upgraded with the u.s. and as you said you think the u.s. is in recession we talked about that before others i talk to you think a u.s. recession is baking a cake so what gives with i.m.f. . but related to roberta you ordered a little bit of rebirth so there you go late to every party but you are very much here for the party i really appreciate you being on the show and expounding upon all of this from unemployment to global growth thanks so much mike said locke investment adviser for sake of pacific capital.

all right let's wrap up with loose change dimitri kofi anan s. so much to talk about in the world today a lot we're going to be difficult on a lot to them which and we sure are let's get up and run in a gal because german chancellor angela merkel got saddled up and she left for greece she arrived there today for an official visit with the country for which there is so much contention between the two germany and greece i would argue and while she offered support to the greek prime minister the greeks least those that got their pictures on t.v. didn't seem very supportive of her we have footage i believe they were going to show protesters took to the streets carrying some banners saying merkel out greece

is not your calling me and this is not a european union it's slavery us media also commented on the protest check out joe scarborough is rant this morning wall talking about merkel's arrival. if you forgive the street. about the germans carry you on your shoulders when you're too lazy and stupid as tax reform and make rules these are you going to put your. dreams yeah you. why. before with friends like that on the mainstream media who needs enemies angela merkel doesn't need to do anything she has us mainstream media pundits on her side that's absurd what we were on earlier is the way that the media in the us that we watch portrays the situation in greece first cover i don't even think that that. would want that i mean just a complete idiot like you're an idiot joe you're

a complete retard sorry i mean what are you doing we're talking about i mean how do you go out and say things like that about a tire nation of people and set me just it's ridiculous but anyway beside the point . yeah we were talking about how the media misrepresents misunderstands greece entirely and i think that they like to take the put greece inside like a larger european union and say greece's problems are about austerity and it's something that we can relate to with other countries in europe but it's not i mean greece is its own country with its own unique history its own problems and in fact austerity which is really just you know the cut the deficit is really just something that spark the powder keg that had been accumulating all that gunpowder to be accumulating for all these decades in greece and all of a sudden. they woke up and they said after all this after all this looting of all this money for all these years that all this money to get out of the country for big counts all these people really rich all these years making money through government all the sudden now we're going to have a depression as a result of all the stuff that you guys say all these years it's ridiculous but

that's the real story is that's what people are so angry people would not be so angry just because of some budget deficit cuts right and more than that well it is a lot more than now but i think that what we see is whatever is convenient to whatever your political agenda is or whatever your your platform is you can easily just blame it on austerity and then it kind of precludes any discussion of cuts or tax reform and countries that are really need it like the u.s. because you can just say austerity and people are programmed to go oh no austerity is bad we're going to be greece and you see people on both sides of the aisle. i'll use this argument and before i move on to the next story i just want to bring up a tweet that a greek journalist tweeted that i thought kind of summed it up even if merkel decides to write off the reset today foreign media will still see the twenty people who burn nazi flags and throw stones at the police i mean it's just kind of the always the focus of any kind of coverage that greece gets is going to have good pictures of people protesting throwing molotov cocktails but the where we want to is going i misspoke for use the word from the use sorry about donna. before that i

just thought of it now but anyway the point is that the r. word. joe nothing really really got me upset like you're going to say that really got me upset it really got me upset i had no plan and even going off on just that sort of crazy clip well you're greek so you're here you're somewhat and i don't i'm sorry and it was incredibly depressing yeah i mean just ridiculous that some guys say lazy thirty hour work weeks go to the beach ball blah it's a complete miserable in there yet slanderous ok it makes it easier to target the let's move on to another story but you're inside is appreciated i'm sure by many of our viewers greece isn't the only place with money problems just pick a country pretty much but iran is facing what some call hyper inflation some say that this is actually not the situation at all but their reality has depreciated significantly against the dollar since august. the reaal has rules you present to the dollar and a sign that sanctions are working in sort of for good it's hurting the iranian

economy but doesn't seem to be persuading the authorities to change their nuclear path. ok sanctions are working dimitri what do you think well that's so there's you've been looking into there's a reason i've never really read into this at all the past few weeks it's been going on there the so there definitely working in the sense that they're having an effect the question is are they having the desired effect and what i thought was interesting from the analysis is that the sort of in the sense that they're crippling iran right on the right degree right right exactly but what what's interesting about this is that the iranian government because they have such a strong control over the economy they're able to put in price controls for for basic necessities food and medicine better most important for the lowest class in society right. and the inflation to see this proportionately to the middle class and why is that important because iran's middle class has been growing for all these years right they've been benefiting a lot but through the economic growth there's like that in the middle class is the more educated class and the class more likely from which change will come about well here's the thing that i would say i mean if they're subsidizing the poor for

essential isn't that what their response but here is not everyone would do in a situation that was dire that the things that strengthens the role of the state so that anybody who is in a shower and their citizenry which is probably not what the u.s. or western countries would technically like to try to achieve with these crushing sanctions one thing i want to make one point i want to make that i think was a really interesting point that i assume we're going to read on the daily reckoning today was ok the real question is kind of what is more significant what is the difference between if your currency depreciates all at once very rapidly or if it depreciates eighty two percent of purchasing power of for forty years as in the case of the u.s. dollar which i thought was an interesting perspective to put it in because you don't see as many headlines when it depreciates over time but nonetheless the decline is there ok we got to go leave it there thanks for watching and have a great night come back tomorrow and in the meantime you know you can follow me on twitter at lauren lyster you can like our facebook page right there you can watch us on you tube give us any feedback all respond on friday watch us an h d on hulu

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